4 Pinocchios for Trump's claims about Hunter Biden's China dealings
The president says Hunter Biden walked out of China with $1.5 billion in a fund and earned millions of dollars from the deal. There is no evidence to support those claims.
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The supposed size of the China fund $1.5 billion comes courtesy of Secret Empires, a 2018 book by conservative author Peter Schweizer, who earlier had targeted Hillary Clinton in the book Clinton Cash. The Fact Checker spent a lot of time in the 2016 campaign chasing down dubious claims touted by Schweizer, such as about the Uranium One deal.
Affiliates of the advisory firm had said they planned to raise $1.5 billion, but it appears the fundraising fell far short of that.
To date, Mr. Biden has not received any return or compensation on account of this investment or his position on the board of directors, Mesires told The Fact Checker after Trumps remarks with Zelensky. The characterization of Mr. Biden as owning a $1.5 billion private equity firm funded by the Chinese, or suggesting that Mr. Biden has earned millions of dollars from the firm is a gross misrepresentation of Mr. Bidens role with BHR.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/09/26/trumps-false-claims-about-hunter-bidens-china-dealings/
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)he deserves the Mega-Meta-Pinocchio Award. Nothing else can fit the bill.
He probably knows more about Pinocchio than almost anybody else...now, that foreign, Geppetto guy, well, bad one...really bad...he's the real liar! No noses!
He likes awards!
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)dhill926
(16,234 posts)Gothmog
(144,005 posts)Link to tweet
From the perspective of Ukrainian legislation, he did not violate anything, former Ukrainian prosecutor general Yuri Lutsenko told The Washington Post in his first interview since the disclosure of a whistleblower complaint alleging pressure by President Trump on Ukraines president, Volodymr Zelensky.
Lutsenkos comments about Hunter Biden which echo what he told Bloomberg News in May were significant, because Trump and his personal attorney Giuliani have sought to stir up suspicions about both Hunter and former vice president Joe Bidens conduct in Ukraine in recent weeks. Joe Biden is leading Trump in many opinion polls ahead of the 2020 election.
Hunter Biden has denied any wrongdoing, and there is no evidence he was involved in any lawbreaking in his work in Ukraine with the countrys largest private gas company.
SunSeeker
(51,378 posts)And is projection.